Saturday, January 18, 2014

And life went on....

I started a blog many years ago and life happened.  So I decided 2014 was the time to start again!
I will use my blog to share info about all things Burns and all things autism. 
So I guess the best way to start is to start at the beginning.  Jared was born in 1998 and we were thrilled to have a second son!  Troy began planning right away for both of the boys' football careers.  He was elated to have two sons. 

And life went on.....

As months passed by, we noticed what a GREAT baby Jared was.  So easy going, really didn't demand much.  One thing we figured out early, was that if he was wrapped up tightly in his blanket and if he had one of those sweet baby hats on, he slept through the night! (Little did I know, that at age 15 he would still be wrapping himself up tightly in a blanket and putting his baby blanket around his head to help himself sleep at night!)

And life went on...

As time past I noticed that Jared really seemed disinterested in us.  He wasn't talking... no mama... no dada.... He wouldn't respond to his name, in fact I actually thought he was deaf.  But I knew he could hear the television, because he would crawl into the room when it turned on.  So I rationalized in my head, that he was deaf to certain frequencies - the one's that most people spoke in.

We took him to an ENT (ear nose and throat) specialist to have his hearing checked.  See in 1988 hearing checks were not done in the hospital when a child was born.  And what an experience that was!!!  We had to go into a small booth type room and sounds would be played and the specialist wanted to see if he would turn toward the sound.  In that booth was my first experience with an "autism sensory overload meltdown", although I didn't know it at the time.  We left that day, both of us soaking wet with sweat even though it was winter, and with no real answers, other than the fact that Jared could hear as well as I could.

And life went on....

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